When I received this big folder in the mail with the following title on the cover — "WALK OF FAME / HOWARD RILEY" — I was so thrilled! But my balloon burst when I found out that Carol Vosler, Gail Rice, Ron Keough, Phil Feinberg, Tom Catillaz and Mary Hotaling had received the same ...

I think I was destined, if not doomed, to be a teacher, which I decided to become a teacher at the tender age of 10. Of course, before that, in typical kid fashion, I’d fancied all sorts of other job. Maybe I’d be an explorer, or an astronaut, or a tightrope walker (in spite of being ...

Do I want to make a New Year’s resolution? People I talk to say they have a hard time following through with their New Year’s resolutions. Social pressure and assumptions can make things confusing, especially for teenagers who want to be accepted for who they truly are and not be forced ...

Lorraine Duvall writes well about time and place. In her 2020 “Finding a Woman’s Place: The Story of a 1970s Feminist Commune,” she returned to an Adirondack effort by women who rejected America’s traditional patriarchal structure and created their own self-designed identity. The book ...